Presshook News Agregator

Day: 15. May 2018.

In a long Facebook post, Doom creator John Carmack discussed what it was like working with Steve Jobs. Prickly Jobs anecdotes aside, Carmack’s experience reminds that Job could be receptive of great ideas.

The system will use behavioral signals – how users react to a tweet – to assess if an account is adding to or detracting from conversations

Twitter is announcing a global change to its ranking algorithm this week, its first step toward improving the “health” of online conversations since it launched a renewed effort to address rampant trolling, harassment and abuse in March.

“It’s shaping up to be one of the highest-impact things that we’ve done,” the chief executive, Jack Dorsey ,said of the update, which will change how tweets appear in search results or conversations. “The spirit of the thing is that we want to take the burden off the person receiving abuse or mob-like behavior.”

Facebook has said Mark Zuckerberg has no plans to come to the UK to give evidence to parliament despite the threat of a formal summons, prompting frustrated MPs inquiring into the Cambridge Analytica data breach to ask if he would appear via video link instead.

The first gameplay trailer for Rage 2 has been released by Bethesda, giving us a look at the game’s weapons, powers, locations, and even a taste of the story. More details will be shared at E3 in June.